Glove-washing machine.



R. VAN DER WAL.

GLOVE WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. I915 1,179,780. Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD VAN DER WAL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

GLOVE-WASHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. Apr. 18, 1916.

Application filed September 25, 1915. Serial No. 52,608.

Receptacle 5 is provided with a corrugated wooden lining 11 on each side of the recessed portion 8, the corrugations of the blocks running crosswise of the machine. 12 is a square shaft or cross-bar disposed axially of the semi-circular receptacle 5 and provided with rounded ends 13 that are journaled within bearings 14: secured to such receptacle 5. The shaft 12 is provided on one end with a fixedly secured crank arm 15 having a crank pin 16 that is connected by a link 17 with another crank pin 18 on a disk 19 that is secured to one end of a drive shaft 20 extending crosswise of the machine and having on its other end a loosely mounted belt wheel 21 and a fixedly mounted belt wheel 22 that are adapted to be engaged by a belt 23 which is connected with a source of power (not shown). l/Vhen the shaft 20 is to be rotated, the belt is shifted onto the rigidly mounted wheel 22 and when the machine is to be stopped the belt is shifted onto the loosely mounted wheel 21, in the well-known manner.

24 is a rocker or washing element of arcuate form provided with brackets 25 to which are secured a cross bar 26 that is connected with the squared shaft 12 by a screw 27 and two upwardly projecting side arms 28. The screw 27 is rotatably mounted in To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD VAN DER VAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glove-YVashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in glove cleaning machinery and the object of the improvement is to provide a machine of this class that is cheap and simple in construction, efiicient in operation, economical in consumption of power, and that has no complicated mechanism to get out of order.

A further object is to provide a machine having a rocker or washing element of a form of construction allowing it to be readily swung upwardly to inspect or replace the gloves being washed, and adapted to coact with an arcuate bottom of the machine in such a manner that gloves placed therein will be urged toward the center of the machine as the rocker is oscillated.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts of a glove-cleaning machine, as will be more fully described in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 upper end with a hand wheel 29 by which is a view in side elevation of a glove clean- ,1 it may be turned. Said screw coacts with ing machine embodying my invention, a-i screw threads where it passes through said portion of the casing being broken away to {cross-bar 26, whereby the rocker may be reveal the interior mechanism; and Fig. 2%i'lraised and lowered by turning such screw. is a view in vertical section on broken line'. iThe side arms 28 project upwardly through 2-2 of Fig. 1.

slots (indicated by broken lines in Fig. 2), Referring to the drawings, throughout.

1n the square shaft 12 and may be secured which like reference numerals indicate like in any desired position by set screws 30. parts, the numeral 5 lndicates a semi-clrcu p The outer curved surface of the rocker 2 r lar receptacle that is mounted on a base 6 is provided with a plurality of fixedly seand provided with a suitable cover 7 b cured blocks 31 within which are secured a which its open topside may be closed. number of brushes 32 separated by spaces The lower central portion of the recep- 32 whereby the gloves acted upon by the tacle 5 is recessed at 8, as shown in Fig. l, brushes 32 in co-action with brushes 9 and for the reception of a plurality of cleaning corrugated blocks 10, are more readily enbrushes 9 and intermediate corrugated: gaged and cleaned. blocks 10 that are adapted to fit snugly The rocker 24 is preferably provided with Within the recess and the bottom. upturned sides 33 having their top edges the square shaft 12, and is provided on its bent outwardly and downwardly, as at 34, to prevent cleaning liquid, as benzin, that is placed in the receptacle 5, from. submerging the top of the rocker.

The brushes 9 are provided with tufts of bristles 9 that are preferably arranged in alinement both crosswise and lengthwise of the brushes whereby dirt and lint that settles in such brushes may be removed by passing a gouge between two adjacent rows of bristles.

The container 5 is provided with a drain pipe 35 having a valve 36 whereby the contents of the container may be drawn off at any time.

When gloves are to be placed in my glove washing machine, the cover 7 is removed and the link 17 is disconnected from the crank pin 16 by removing a key 16 and springing the link outwardly; the screws 30 are then loosened and the rocker 24 is raised by turning the screw 27; the rocker 24: is then turned upwardly into a position subtantiallv opposite to the position shown in Fig. 1 and the gloves to be cleaned are placed in the receptacle 5 on the brushes 9 and blocks 10. The rocker '24: is then turned downwardly into the position shown in Fig. 1, and is lowered by turning the screw 27 until the brushes 32 rest on the gloves to be cleaned. The set screws 30 may then be tightened and the link 17 may be replaced on the crank pin 16.

After a proper amount of cleaning solution, as benzin, is introduced into the receptacle 5 to substantially the depth indicated by the line A. the belt 23 may be shifted onto the fixed pulley 22, thus causing the shaft 20 and disk 19 to be rotated. As the disk 19 rotates, the link 17 will be moved back and forth by the crank pin 18 and the square shaft 12 will be oscillated by movement of the crank arm 15 and will cause the rocker 24 to be rocked or oscillated back and forth over the gloves, thus producing a scrubbing effect that thoroughly cleans such gloves.

The cleaning surface of the rocker 24 is desirably made not concentric with the cleaning surface of the receptacle 5, but the are upon which such rocker surface is constructed has a radius greater than the distance from the shaft 12 to the outer circumference of the rocker at a central point, and hence the two ends or tips of such rocker are always nearer to the cleaning surface of the receptacle 5 than points between the two ends, the middle point being at all times the farthest removed. The same effect and result may be accomplished by extending the bristles of the brushes at the extremities of the rocker further out toward the brushes '9 than the'brushes in the intermediate portion of the rocker. These forms of construction are believed to be of decided advantage since when gloves are placed in the washer and the rocker 24 is oscillated back and forth over the gloves, the ends of the rocker will tend at all times to urge the gloves toward the center of the receptacle 5 instead of causing them to climb up the sides of such receptacle, as would be their natural tendency if the arc of the outer surface of the rocker was concentric with the are of the inner surface of the receptacle 5.

It is evident from Fig. 1 of the drawings that the rocker 24: will swing through a relati vely small are when the shaft 20 is rotated, and it is found most advantageous to oscillate such rocker relatively slowly when cleaning gloves.

The distinct advantage of the upturned sides of the rocker 24 resides in the saving of cleaning solution occasioned thereby, a very small amount of solution serving to immerse a relatively large quantity of gloves. If any of the solution splashes into the rocker during the cleaning process it is dumped back into the receptacle 5 when the rocker is turned up to permit the removal of the washed gloves.

\Vhile I have described the illustrated embodiment of my invention with considerable detail, I do not wish to be understood as confining myself to the precise construction, as obviously various changes in detail may be readily and obviously made within the scope of the claims and the spirit of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, is

1. A glove washing machine comprising a casing provided with an arcuate floor and having at its lower portion a centrally-disposed arcuate pocket, a series of alternately disposed rubbing and brushing elements mounted in the pocket and retained therein by the end walls of said pocket, and'a rubbing element mounted for oscillation above the pocket.

2. A glove washing machine comprising a casing provided with an arcuate floor and having at its lower portion a centrally-disposed areuate pocket, a series of alternately disposed rubbing and brushing elements mounted in the pocket and retained therein by the end walls of said pocket, and a rubbing element mounted for oscillation above the pocket, the remaining portion of said casing floor being provided with rubbing elements at each side of the pocket.

3. The combination in a glove washing machine, of a casing having an arcuate floor provided with rubbing and brushing elements, a shaft extending through the casing from side to side and journaled in the sides thereof, means to oscillate the shaft, bars in adjusted position, and a rubbing element 10 extending through the shaft and slidable carried by the yoke and bars.

vertically therein, means to lock the bars Signed at Seattle, Wash., this 11th day in adjustable position relative to the shaft, of September, 1915.

" a screw journaled for rotative movement only in the shaft, a yoke threaded on the RICHARD VAN DER lower end of said screw whereby rotation Witnesses:

of the screw will positively move the yoke HORACE BARNES,

to and from the shaft and hold the same E. PETERSON.

come: of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patentl, Washington, D. G." 

